45 - Wrapping a Hair Around a Spider’s Leg

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English - May 25, 2022 17:25 - 2 hours - 345 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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On this episode, Kris and I discuss initiation rites throughout the world, with an eye towards distinguishing childhood from adulthood in terms of agency when dealing with uncertainty.

We finish up with some practical questions: what’s the best way to know how many gumballs are in a gumball machine? Why are there so many large insects in the Solomon Islands? Does sex magic work?

We continue our quest to acquire new and interesting questions…

Part 1

Death Thinking / Initiation Rites/ Rumspringa / Bull Jumping

Part 2

Land Divers / Developing Agency in Uncertainty / Hieroglyphic Silence

Carpenter bee

Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delaney

François Rabelais

Breaking Bad

Better Call Saul

“Spiritual Politics of the Dead”